That very night, Huo Qi was plunged into a dream of his previous life.
In the dream, he was scorned by everyone, with all his relatives and friends wearing grim expressions of derision, mockery, or disdain as they rebuked him.
He found himself teetering on the brink of despair and oppression, seeing relatives from his past life.
In a neatly oppressive room, a middle-aged woman's hands were stained with blood on the curtains, her eyes full of hatred, her face twisted as she wept in accusation.
This was his mother from his past life, clutching him after he had been rescued from a suicide attempt, crying and coercing him with her own death to forget Miss Duan and even cursing Miss Duan to never find peace, even in death.
He saw how his father was despised by those around him just because he had sought death for Miss Duan, labeled inept and cowardly, deemed unworthy of the title of Number One Scholar bestowed by the Emperor.